[Scons-dev] Python 3

[Tim Jenness]

> On Apr 1, 2016, at 03:21 , Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 22:10 +0100, William Blevins wrote:
>> Tim,
>> 
>> I think Russel was the last person work on this in depth. I was
>> helping
>> some, but I was waiting for a decision about using six vs futurize.
>> I'm not
>> 100% sure there was a decision made, but it has been active pseudo-
>> recently.
>> 
>> https://bitbucket.org/russel/scons__python3
>> 
> 
> I had to go away for a while, sorry about that. Hopefully I can get on
> with this a lot more in the next few days.
> 
> As far as I remember we had made the decision to ditch six. Step 1 is
> to make the code futurize -1 compliant and run under Python 2.7 then to
> decide whether to have the futurize dependency so as to go the whole
> Python 3.5 thing. The doubt was that some people didn't want the
> futurize dependency.
> 
> I believe the idea is that now that the python3 branch is up-to-date
> with all default changesets, once 2.5 is released we can merge the
> python3 branch into default and then do all work solely on default.
> 

Sounds great. I’ll try to help (although I’m a git/github person and I’ve never used hg/bitbucket) but I’ll be happy to talk and try it out on our fairly substantial scons environment.

— 
Tim Jenness

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